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Why the debt panel is in trouble
Will conservative talkers turn on Cain?
By KEACH HAGEY & GLENN THRUSH | 11/18/11 1:12 PM“If they don’t talk about you, it’s like you don’t exist,” says one GOP campaign adviser.
Romney keeps courting Union Leader
By REID J. EPSTEIN | 11/18/11 5:18 PMWho shut down tea party 'hearing'?
By SCOTT WONG | 11/18/11 4:51 PMStaffers from Schumer’s Rules Committee kicked tea party debt hearing out of a Senate room.
Dems reject latest GOP deficit offer
By JAKE SHERMAN & MANU RAJU | 11/18/11 4:08 PMLawmakers decline a $640 billion deficit deal, making a compromise look implausible.
Balanced budget amendment rejected
By SEUNG MIN KIM | 11/18/11 3:41 PMThe Constitutional amendment falls short of the two-thirds majority vote needed in the House.
POLITICO Influence: Deal or no deal
By DAVE LEVINTHAL & ANNA PALMER | 11/18/11 2:56 PMSeveral Democratic and Republican K-Streeters say supercommittee woes aren't bad news for business.
GOP has a new favorite villain
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 11/18/11 10:41 AMBrune new chairman at Sierra Club
By DAN BERMAN & DARREN SAMUELSOHN | 11/18/11 4:43 PMThe move comes as the environmental lobby recovers from last year’s death of climate legislation.
Atlas Project ushers in new era
By BEN SMITH | 11/18/11 3:45 PMThe well-connected consulting firm launched a site that compiles the information campaigns rely on.
Big Labor shells out for GOP friends
By ROBIN BRAVENDER | 11/18/11 8:34 AMThis year union giving is down, but a higher percentage of donations is going to Republicans.
The transformation of Pat Toomey
By SCOTT WONG | 11/18/11 6:47 AMThe tea party darling from Pennsylvania has turned into a key compromiser.
Hillary Clinton to visit Myanmar
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 11/18/11 10:09 AMBloomberg: Unions hijacked protest
By MJ LEE | 11/18/11 3:38 PMHe calls it opportunity for "unions to complain."
Rare deal: $182B approps bill passes
By DAVID ROGERS | 11/17/11 9:15 PMHouse-Senate farm bill negotiators signal they are nearing an agreement on a five-year plan.
Twyman: Obama needs to Tebow
By PATRICK GAVIN | 11/18/11 4:35 PMIs the secret to success for President Barack Obama to be more like … Tim Tebow?
Clinton: 'Sick' about Penn State
By MJ LEE | 11/18/11 10:29 AMShe says the scandal is especially personal because of her family’s ties to the school and team.
Obama sends note to Heavy D's funeral
By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 11/18/11 4:24 PMClinton 'surprised' at Chelsea move
By TIM MAK | 11/18/11 9:56 AMThe secretary of state weighs in on her daughter's decision to take a reporting job with NBC News.
Alleged W.H. shooter: I am modern-day Jesus
By MJ LEE | 11/18/11 10:30 AMHe reportedly recorded a video for Oprah.
Real debt solution must 'go long'
By PETER G. PETERSON | 11/18/11 7:52 AMOpinion: The supercommitee should reform policies projected to increase debt beyond the next decade.
W.H. threatens to veto defense bill
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 11/18/11 6:26 AMThe Obama administration could block the bill over its language on military detainees.
Poll: U.S. leadership above China's
By TIM MAK | 11/18/11 7:22 AMIn eight of the nine Asian countries polled, more respondents approved of American leadership.
Poll: Legalize pot -- for medical use
By TIM MAK | 11/18/11 7:50 AMSeventy-seven percent say doctors should be allowed to prescribe marijuana for patients.
- 2012 LIVE
Cain apologizes to Latinos for joke
He then outlined a border policy he supports, praising Arizona and Alabama immigration laws.
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Clinton plays dumb on candidates
"I haven't been honestly paying a lot of attention" to the GOP field, the secretary of state says.
- The Arena
Is Occupy a bunch of 'babies'?
Don Todd: "Americans have been exposed to full grown infants with advanced degrees."
Sunday shows: Newt rising
By POLITICO STAFF | 11/18/11 11:48 AMPlay VideoCain to Letterman: Accusers are liars
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/18/11 5:25 PM"All of these women are lying?" Letterman asks.
Kinder won't run for Missouri gov
By DAVID CATANESE | 11/18/11 4:41 PMSources say he changed his mind in the last 36 hours.
Romney: 'I exhale carbon dioxide'
By REID J. EPSTEIN & DAN BERMAN | 11/18/11 5:05 PMHe says he doesn't want the EPA following him.
Levin, W.H. tangle on detainee policy
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 11/18/11 5:18 PMThe Obama team is in a public showdown with the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Politi-quotes: The week in one-liners
By CAITLIN MCDEVITT | 11/18/11 1:39 PMThe derailed plans of James O'Keefe
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 11/18/11 11:01 AMThe conservative activist's vision is hampered by infighting, lack of funding and his own fame.
Perry swipes at Holder
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 11/18/11 1:29 PMThe 2012 hopeful describes 'Fast and Furious' as an "ill-conceived operation."
Newt advised Freddie until takeover
By ANNA PALMER | 11/18/11 6:38 AMHis second contract ended after the meltdown.
22 Dems back Berman over Sherman
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 11/18/11 3:26 PMThe endorsements give Berman a boost in his fight to win one of California's redrawn districts.
This week by the numbers
By KARIN TANABE | 11/18/11 3:55 PMAbramoff pleads for his domain name
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & ANNA PALMER | 11/18/11 6:45 AMThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee owns the rights to “jackabramoff.com.”
GOP grills Chu on Solyndra
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN | 11/18/11 6:14 AMGOP lawmakers say probe will continue.
Newt 2.0 still has faults of Newt 1.0
By MARTIN FROST | 11/18/11 4:58 PMOpinion: I wouldn't vote for Gingrich, but I do have an appreciation for his strengths and weaknesses.
Ariz. court rebuffs Brewer on map
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 11/18/11 6:56 AMThe state Supreme Court rules that the governor illegally impeached the top redistricting official.
Bush impersonator: 'Miss me?'
By PATRICK GAVIN | 11/18/11 1:02 PMPalin in WSJ: Congress occupying Wall Street
By MJ LEE | 11/18/11 9:43 AMShe blasts lawmakers who arrive "as men and women of modest means" and leave as millionaires.
Giffords: Slash lawmaker pay
By JONATHAN ALLEN | 11/18/11 2:41 PMThe Arizona congresswoman's aides have asked the supercommittee to cut lawmakers' pay.
Bachmann hits Obama over Qadhafi
By GINGER GIBSON & MAGGIE HABERMAN | 11/18/11 7:11 AM"We don’t know what type of chaos will ensue" in Libya, the GOP hopeful says.
Flailing in N.H., Johnson blasts RNC
By JUANA SUMMERS | 11/17/11 11:12 PM"I feel like the Republican party has left me," says the long-shot GOP hopeful.